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The year 2012 quickly comes to an end. Everything seems to be in hyperdrive. It has been said that we are living in expo­nential times. Many consider the current digital age to be the fourth age of mankind, fol­lowing printing, language, and toolmaking, in reverse order. Moore's Law, which states that computing power doubles ap­proximately every two years, seems to be the axiom of this fourth age. Many futurists agree that we are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist. Think about this, two decades ago the first commercial text message was sent. Today, the number of text messages sent every day
Goat Newsletter
Cooperative Extension Program
Langston University
The Newsletter of the E (Kika) de la Garza American Institute for Goat Research Winter 2012The Cooperative Extension Program at Langston University provides educational programs to individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age disability or status as a veteran. Issued in furtherance of Extension work, Act of September 29, 1977, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From the Director’s Deskexceeds the number of people now living on Earth. Some of today's most innovative companies did not exist twenty years ago: Amazon and eBay were founded in 1995, Google in 1998, Wikipedia in 2001, Skype and iTunes in 2003, Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006.
Let's look at YouTube, which is a video sharing web­site. YouTube has over 120 million videos, more than 800 million unique visitors per month, and during that month, over four billion hours of video are watched. In 2011, YouTube had more than one trillion views or around 140 views for every person on Earth.
I remember when audio first appeared on the inter­net. The complete file had to downloaded before you could listen to the audio and it was a painfully slow process; later came video, which was even slower. Advances were made and streaming multimedia files became available but servers needed to be specially con­figured. If you don't recall, a streaming multimedia file can begin playing before the entire file has been completely trans­mitted. Videos on YouTube are excellent examples of stream­ing multimedia files.
I mention YouTube be­cause our Extension personnel strive to deliver content in the most efficient and productive way possible. We recently in­augurated a YouTube channel, which you can read more about in this newsletter. By devel­oping videos and distributing them on YouTube, we can ensure that we will reach the widest audience possible and we do not have to worry about the maintenance of a streaming server. I hope that you will be able to watch some of our YouTube videos. If you are a smartphone owner, of which there are more than 100 million in the United States, then you will be able to take advantage of the QR code that is dis­played next to the description of the videos on pages 6 and 7.
A QR (Quick Response) code, also known as a 2D bar­code is a readable barcode rec­ognized by many smartphones and other mobile devices. The QR code was first developed in Japan, has become very popu­lar in Europe, and recently has gained traction here in the United States. Unlike the older one-dimensional barcode that

The year 2012 quickly comes to an end. Everything seems to be in hyperdrive. It has been said that we are living in expo­nential times. Many consider the current digital age to be the fourth age of mankind, fol­lowing printing, language, and toolmaking, in reverse order. Moore's Law, which states that computing power doubles ap­proximately every two years, seems to be the axiom of this fourth age. Many futurists agree that we are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist. Think about this, two decades ago the first commercial text message was sent. Today, the number of text messages sent every day
Goat Newsletter
Cooperative Extension Program
Langston University
The Newsletter of the E (Kika) de la Garza American Institute for Goat Research Winter 2012The Cooperative Extension Program at Langston University provides educational programs to individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age disability or status as a veteran. Issued in furtherance of Extension work, Act of September 29, 1977, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From the Director’s Deskexceeds the number of people now living on Earth. Some of today's most innovative companies did not exist twenty years ago: Amazon and eBay were founded in 1995, Google in 1998, Wikipedia in 2001, Skype and iTunes in 2003, Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006.
Let's look at YouTube, which is a video sharing web­site. YouTube has over 120 million videos, more than 800 million unique visitors per month, and during that month, over four billion hours of video are watched. In 2011, YouTube had more than one trillion views or around 140 views for every person on Earth.
I remember when audio first appeared on the inter­net. The complete file had to downloaded before you could listen to the audio and it was a painfully slow process; later came video, which was even slower. Advances were made and streaming multimedia files became available but servers needed to be specially con­figured. If you don't recall, a streaming multimedia file can begin playing before the entire file has been completely trans­mitted. Videos on YouTube are excellent examples of stream­ing multimedia files.
I mention YouTube be­cause our Extension personnel strive to deliver content in the most efficient and productive way possible. We recently in­augurated a YouTube channel, which you can read more about in this newsletter. By devel­oping videos and distributing them on YouTube, we can ensure that we will reach the widest audience possible and we do not have to worry about the maintenance of a streaming server. I hope that you will be able to watch some of our YouTube videos. If you are a smartphone owner, of which there are more than 100 million in the United States, then you will be able to take advantage of the QR code that is dis­played next to the description of the videos on pages 6 and 7.
A QR (Quick Response) code, also known as a 2D bar­code is a readable barcode rec­ognized by many smartphones and other mobile devices. The QR code was first developed in Japan, has become very popu­lar in Europe, and recently has gained traction here in the United States. Unlike the older one-dimensional barcode that